A man walks amid the wreckage of the Malaysian Airlines jet which was carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. The president of Ukraine accused pro-Russia rebels of shooting the jet down with a ground-to-air missile.

A member of the Ukrainian police special task force patrols in Semenovka. Earlier in the week, Ukraine accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the border.

Israeli security personnel look at a window damaged by shrapnel after a short-range rocket landed near the Erez crossing. The Israeli military stated that an Israeli civilian was killed by the rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, the first Israeli fatality in more than a week of fighting with Palestinian militants.

A Palestinian family who fled their home seek shelter in a UN school in Khan Younis as Israel expanded its offensive with ground troops. The overall death toll climbed to more than 260, with 2,000 injured, many of them civilians, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said.

A Palestinian man burns a tyre during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the Israeli offensive. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza to destroy rocket-launching sites and tunnels, firing volleys of tank shells and clashing with Palestinian fighters in the ground offensive meant to weaken Hamas.

Fans watch Dirk Kuyt of the Netherlands and Brazil's Oscar challenge for the ball during their 2014 World Cup third-place playoff in Brasilia, which Holland won 3-0. 'Losing 7-1 was the worst result in history but I have to see the positive side of things,' Scolari said. 'In 2006 we didn’t finish in the final four and neither did we in 2010.'

The German players celebrate defeating Argentina 1-0 in the World Cup final. Germany became the first European side to win the World Cup on South American soil with a dramatic late Mario Götze goal. 'Whether we have the best individual players or whatever does not matter, you have to have the best team,' said captain Philipp Lahm, 'and at the end you stand there as world champions, an unbelievable feeling'.

A Romanian Roma child sits among his family belongings at a container settlement outside the Black Sea coAstal town of Eforie, eastern Romania. Local authorities relocated eight Roma families to a settlement outside the city boundaries prompting protests by human rights organisations because the location is close to the city's garbage dump and there is lack of running water or electricity.

Clouds are pictured above farmland in Tasmania. Once a dumping ground for the British Empire's convicts, Tasmania's isolation, wilderness and low population of just over half a million people has meant that it is one of the cleanest places on earth.

In a photograph by Dan Kitwood, a regular contributor to this gallery, Imperial War Museum employees look out of a window into the main atrium. The new world war one galleries at the Imperial War Museum opened this week in London.